macxi wrote:I think it should be easier for the French government, support for the French entities.
Well, dreaming is not forbidden. But we have to be realistic nevertheless:.
1. Open Source != non-commercial. As public offices the French administration will have to contract some solution/migration company for each migration task. There isn't such a company of appropriate size doing their business with Mageia (yet).
2. Previous cases show that the French government does not see the nationality as prime factor, they even preferred Ubuntu over the French commercial company Mandriva SA in two major cases.
Example from Germany: Since 2000 the German public office for IT-Security (BSI) has been advising officially and repeatedly all German public offices to prefer Open Source for their IT. Still, almost nobody listened to this advice, usage of Open Source in public offices in Germany is very rare.
Of course, even if nothing will come out of it, in the big picture this talk about Open Source is a positive advertizing for FOSS in general.